How will you maintain confidentiality?

We are committed to protect your privacy. Your identity will be kept as confidential as possible. Except as required by law, you will not be identified by name or by any other direct personal identifier.

To protect your privacy we will use a random code number instead of your name on all your data collected, analyzed, aggregated and released to researchers. Information about the code will be kept in a secure computer system. Researchers will have access to all the data collected in the study, but will not be able to map any particular data to the identities of the participants.

The results of this research study may be presented at scientific or medical meetings or published in scientific journals. However, your identity will not be disclosed.